Plant-based vaccine for polio
"The fight against polio has been one of the great success stories of modern medicine with the disease already eliminated…
Pharmacy/Drugs
Tresiba® demonstrated significantly lower rates of overall, nocturnal and severe hypoglycaemia vs insulin glargine U-100
New Orleans, US, 11 June 2016 – New findings from the two phase 3b SWITCH trials showed that treatment with…
Familiarity breeds strong immune systems
TJ: In a recent article titled ‘’The future of neonatal BCG’’ (1), you suggest that, from bacteriological and immunological perspectives,…
Stem cell donation
The first treatment for all types of leukaemia is usually chemotherapy, a powerful drug treatment that kills the cancerous cells…
The Post-Antibiotic Era
Increasing antibiotic resistance is a global health emergency. According to the World Health Organisation, without urgent, coordinated action, the world…
Antibiotics…helping hand or harmful?
Resistance to antibiotics Over my surgical career, I have seen a real change in the way we use antibiotics. Initially,…
Pills for pain
Chronic pain is one of the major health concerns in the UK. According to the National Pain Audit, published in…
Bio-identical hormone therapy
Bio-identical hormone therapy routinely includes key anti-aging hormones such as oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone and DHEA, which can be taken orally…
AMR and the importance of finding new ways to prevent and treat infections
Jim O’Neill, chair of the UK Government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, has today called for vaccines and alternative approaches to…
How much is polypharmacy a necessary evil?
A few years ago, I and some GP colleagues – Tony Avery from Nottingham University, and Rupert Payne from Cambridge…